Zora Neale Hurston

Born

January 7, 1891 · Notasulga, Alabama, USA

Died

January 28, 1960

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Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937.